Companies That Lost GNU/Linux Focus After Microsoft Deals
Companies that signed collaborative deals with Microsoft -- including submissive patent deals -- eventually lost their focus on GNU/Linux and thus effectively neutralised. We have given example of this in the following posts.
Novell Creates OpenSUSE Team But Decreases OpenSUSE Support
Simon Phipps: “Linux is No Longer Important Enough to Justify a Business Unit at Novell”
Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus
Novell Sets Focus on .NET
Reminder: Novell and Xandros Are Not Open Source Companies
Novell and Xandros Are Promoting Windows, Again
Is Linux Focus Being Lost at Novell?
Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)
Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage
Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED) (Novell's new product is patents)
Xandros Shows Death by Microsoft
Xandros: “We Are Kind of Getting Away from Being a Linux Company”
Xandros Thinks Linspire Customers Use Microsoft Windows
Xandros/Presto is Windows-Only, Xandros is Still Linux Shy
Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail
Linspire Sells Us Linux FUD, Not GNU/Linux
Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft (LG for Microsoft)
Microsoft Dumping in SXSW, Barnardos, and Samsung (Samsung for Microsoft)
Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft
Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop
Corel, Like Novell, is Microsoft’s Friend, Not Its Competitor
Microsoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?
Corel’s Days Seem Numbered After Selling Out to Microsoft, Just Like Novell
Corel: Whose side is it on anyway?
ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”
What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?
ASUS Enters the Slog Business
More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux
It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
Russia’s Antimonopoly Service Targets ASUS, Toshiba, H-P, Samsung and Dell for Potentially Colluding with Microsoft
Companies That Signed Anti-Linux Patent and FUD Deals with Microsoft Also Violate the GPL
Do Patent Deals with Microsoft Knock GNU/Linux Vendors Out of GNU/Linux Business?
"Apparently Epic Games (UT3 for Linux missing, apparently after deeper Xbox involvement)," adds MinceR. See this for details.
Also learn what Microsoft did to OLPC.
Novell
Xandros/Linspire
Devices
Corel
Asus
Misc.
"Apparently Epic Games (UT3 for Linux missing, apparently after deeper Xbox involvement)," adds MinceR. See this for details.
Also learn what Microsoft did to OLPC.